Yuyutsu,

So what you mean is that people (if they are so inclined) seek a path to the "realisation" that they're God?

(This my last post off topic:)

Dear Poirot,

Yes, but without quotes.

Dear Poirot and Yuyutsu,

onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10065&page=1 points to my article, "God is a human invention". Hopefully we will eventually become sufficiently mature that we can be free from the primitive thought processes which promoted that invention.

Dear David,

Yes, the god(s) that you speak about in your article are human inventions.

The God that can be invented is not the eternal God.

Tao the Ching, Chapter 1 - http://www.taoism.net/ttc/chapters/chap01.htm :
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The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name
The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad things
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Dear Yuyutsu,

There is no real God. All are invented. Humans invent explanations where there is no evidence. Then they keep those explanations and claim, "The God I follow isn't invented." You apparently desire to believe in nonsense. Have a nice day.

Dear David,

It doesn't make sense to believe in the reality of God until and unless one believes in the reality of themselves, until you stop denying that YOU ARE and stop asking for evidence for that which is most obvious of all.

Once you do admit that you are, then half the job is done and all that is left is to question yourself "Who am I?". Contemplate this question long enough and you will find that there is no difference between yourself and everything and everyone else, no difference between your AMness and others' AREness and ISness, that the seeming separateness is an illusion and so you and all others and all else, are in fact one - and that one is God.

I think I already provided this link before: http://www.swamivivekanandaquotes.org/2014/10/who-is-atheist.html

There, Swami Vivekananda states: "He is an atheist who does not believe in himself."